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Tropical storm Orlene expected to be hurricane off Mexico's Pacific coast

Tropical Storm Orlene is expected to grow into a hurricane by Saturday as its heads for an expected landfall on Mexico's northwestern Pacific coast. The U.S. National Hurricane Centre said Orlene had maximum sustained winds of 100 kph early Saturday. It was centred about 380 kilometres south-southwest of Cabo Corrientes and moving north at 7 kph. The centre said Orlene is a small, compact storm, with tropical storm-force winds extending out only 75 kilometres from the centre. It was forecast to grow to hurricane force by Saturday morning before falling back to tropical storm strength ahead of a forecast Monday landfall in Sinaloa state, in the region around the resort city of Mazatlan.

Tropical storm Ian to become major hurricane in eastern Gulf of Mexico

Tropical storm Ian is expected to be a major hurricane in the eastern Gulf of Mexico during the middle of this week, the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) said in its latest update.

1 reported dead as 6.8 magnitude earthquake shakes buildings in Mexico

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.8 struck Mexico early on Friday, causing buildings to sway and leaving at least one person dead in the nation's capital. The earthquake struck early on Thursday shortly after 1 am, just three days after a 7.6-magnitude earthquake shook western and central Mexico, killing two. The US Geological Survey said Thursday's earthquake like Monday's tremor was centred in the western state of Michoacan near the Pacific coast. The epicentre was about 29 miles (46 kilometres) south-southwest of Aguililla, Michoacan, at a depth of about 15 miles (24.1 kilometres). Michoacan's state government said the quake was felt throughout the state. It reported damage to a building in the city of Uruapan and some landslides on the highway that connects Michoacan and Guerrero with the coast. President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said via Twitter that it was an aftershock from Monday's quake and was also felt in the states of Colima, Jalisco and ...

1 reported dead as massive 7.7 magnitude quake hits west-central Mexico

A massive 7.7 magnitude earthquake jolted west-central Mexico on a day when the country marked the anniversary of two major temblors that struck in 1985 and 2017

WikiLeaks founder's family brings release Julian Assange campaign to Mexico

This week the objective was to insert mention of Julian Assange into a meeting between Mexico's president and the United States' top diplomat. Next week, it will be to have Australia's prime minister bring it up with the U.S. president at Queen Elizabeth II's funeral. The efforts are part of the campaign by John Shipton, father of the WikiLeaks founder, to find allies and convince the U.S. to drop espionage charges against Assange, who remains in a British prison awaiting extradition to the U.S. The journey by the septuagenarian Australian architect together with another son, Gabriel, brought them this week to Mexico. The country has become the family's main ally in Latin America since President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador offered Assange political asylum and called for the U.S. to allow him to seek refuge there. We call President Lpez Obrador an ice-breaker, because afterward the leaders of Chile, Colombia and Bolivia called for his release too, Gabriel Shipton said during the visit

Mexico: State-owned oil company admits releasing huge methane plume

Mexico's state-owned Petroleos Mexicanos oil company acknowledged on Thursday it released a huge plume of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, in the Gulf of Mexico late last year. A report published in June by Spanish university researchers in the journal Environmental Science and Technology Letters estimated that the leak contained about 40,000 tons of methane. The article estimated that would be equivalent to releasing about 3.3 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The gas release came in December when one of the company's oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico stopped flaring, or burning off oil well gases. The company, known as Pemex, claimed the gases escaped unburned for a few hours. Researchers said it happened over a period of over two weeks. Petroleos Mexicanos acknowledged Thursday that the leak occurred accidentally after winds and rains extinguished flames meant to burn off the gas. But the company said only 22 per cent of the gas release was methane, and the

Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla inaugurates India-Mexico Friendship Garden

Both the countries are also sharing best practices for strengthening parliamentary democracy in the world, Birla noted

Mexico's imports from Russia increase by 20% in first half of 2022

Mexico imported goods from Russia worth $1.193 billion in January-June of this year, according to the latest figures from the Bank of Mexico

Mexican Prez backs US as it ends controversial "Remain in Mexico" policy

"Now that the court has decided that those who request asylum in the US can wait in the US... We see it as a good thing," Lopez Obrador told reporters

Journalist shot dead in Mexico, 15th media person to die so far this year

A journalist who ran an online local news programme was shot to death in southern Mexico, making him the 15th media worker killed so far this year nationwide. Prosecutors in the southern state of Guerrero said on Monday that Fredid Romn was gunned down in the state capital, Chilpancingo. Romn's programme, The Reality of Guerrero, focused heavily on state-level politics. He also wrote a column. Guerrero is a state where drug gangs, armed vigilantes and other groups regularly clash. 2022 has been one of the deadliest ever for journalists in Mexico, which is now considered the most dangerous country for reporters outside a war zone. Prosecutors did not immediately offer any further details on the killing of Romn, who local media said had previously published a newspaper under the same name and was shot inside his vehicle. The killing comes just one week after independent journalist Juan Arjn Lpez was found dead in the northern border state of Sonora. Prosecutors said he died from a

Chinese factories flock to Mexico in a bid to avoid Trump-era tariffs

Chinese factories have flocked to areas of Mexico that border the United States in a bid to avoid tariffs imposed under the Trump administration running into millions of dollars, Nikkei Asia reported

Trump-era policy 'Remain in Mexico' is over: Biden administration

The Department of Homeland Security ended a Trump-era policy requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico for hearings in US immigration court, hours after a judge lifted an order.

Large SUV drives into a parade in New Mexico, injuring multiple people

A person in a large SUV drove through a parade in New Mexico on Thursday, injuring multiple people including two police officers.

9 coal miners trapped after a cave collapse in northern Mexico

A cave-in at a coal mine in northern Mexico trapped nine miners, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador said.

Mexico confirms 60 monkeypox cases with no fatalities: Lopez-Gatell

Mexico has confirmed 60 cases of monkeypox, Undersecretary of Prevention and Health Promotion Hugo Lopez-Gatell said on Tuesday.To date, there have been no fatalities from monkeypox in Mexico, Lopez-Gatell said."Only about five or six people have been hospitalized because they had severe immunosuppression, but in general everyone has recovered in approximately 21 days," he added.The cases of monkeypox, which is related to the virus that causes smallpox but leads to milder symptoms and is rarely fatal, have been detected in 11 Mexican cities.Over 16,000 monkeypox cases and five related deaths have been reported in 75 countries and regions, according to the latest figures released by the World Health Organization, which on Saturday declared the monkeypox outbreak a "public health emergency of international concern.

Mexican president calls opponents foreign agents, traitors sponsored by US

In a bid to stoke nationalism and justify his policies, Mexico's president has increasingly taken to calling his opponents traitors and accused them of working for the foreign governments.

Harmful US border policies damaging to Mexico, millions of migrants: IRC

Harmful border policies put in place by the US are damaging to Mexico and undermine the human rights of millions of migrants, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) said.

PepsiCo's India revenue & volume grew in double-digits in 3 mths to June 11

PepsiCo India has also been gaining market share in India since the start of 2022.

Marcos to Rajapaksa: A short guide to leaders fleeing their nations

Gotabaya Rajapaksa is not the first leader to have fled their country in the face of popular unrest. Here is a brief list mentioning some of them

Spotify expands video podcasts for creators in non-English speaking nations

Swedish music streaming platform Spotify has announced to expand video podcasts for creators in six non-English speaking nations countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Brazil and Mexico